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Document Type:Article of a journal
Title:Enchanted to a stone :heroes and leaders in The Harafish by Najib Mahfuz / Catherine Cobham.
Author: Cobham, Catherine
Language:English
Notes:The Harafish (Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press,1977) referred to in this article is the English translation of Malhamat al-harafish.
Summary:This study makes a comparison between Mahfuz and Yeats with regard to their preoccupation with change and permanence, with the nature of leaders and the creation of heroes, and the desirability or otherwise of violence as an agent of change.
Author as Subject: Mahfuz, Najib, 1911-2006Yeats, W.B. 1865-1939
Descriptors: Fiction Novel
Source: Middle Eastern Literatures. 9: 2 (August 2006), p. 123-135
Source Type: Serial
 

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